Raw Point Cloud Deferred Shading Through Screen Space Pyramidal Operators

Abstract

We present a novel real-time raw point cloud rendering algorithm based on efficient screen-space pyramidal operators. Our method is based on a pyramidal occlusion-based hidden point removal operator followed by a pyramidal reconstruction by the pull push algorithm. Then a new pyramidal smooth normals estimator enables subsequent deferred shading. We demonstrate on various real-world complex objects and scenes that our method achieves better visual results and is one order of magnitude more efficient comparing to state of the art algorithms.